#boycott facebook

[nando161mando]

My oh my. From ABC News Australia: "Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option."

A summary:

"The company does not offer Australians an opt out option like it does in the EU, because it has not been required to do so under privacy law."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-11/facebook-scraping-photos-data-no-opt-out/104336170

BTW the ABC News website has links to Facebook, Instagram and X but no Fediverse profiles. So their posts are used to train #Llama

[ebbyscrooge]

Well, SHIT! META JUST REINSTATED THE SEDITIOUS AND DANGEROUS TRAITOR BACK ON FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM!!! I’M ABOUT TO DELETE MY ACCOUNTS AND KEEP THIS ONE AND KEEP TRIBEL! FUCK THEM!!! FUCK THEM ALL!!! THEY REALLY WANT THIS COUNTRY TO GO BATSHIT CRAZY WITH FASCISTS?! UGH!!! I HATE IT HERE!!

*Tries not to throw a teacup, fails* DAMN THEM!!! Damn them all to HELL. They risk endangering your life as well as others, by letting this sociopathic narcissistic bastard back on?! AFTER HE HAD HIS FOLLOWERS INCITE VIOLENCE AT THE CAPITOL 2 YEARS AGO?! HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN JAIL BY NOW! DEAR JESUS HELP US!!! @iloveyoutoinfinity @sweeneytodddemonbarber @joshuawilliams74 @cunningwarrior @strangestephendoctor

[critical-skeptic]

FUCK YOU, ZUCKERBERG…

You spineless, Cheeto-mushroom-gobbling, knee-bending, anemic zombiedroid, hypocritical, scared, little ass-kissing, greedy fuck. Let’s not pretend you’re anything more than a glorified tech parasite who happened to hit the lottery by taking a college networking idea—one that wasn’t even entirely yours—and turning it into a platform that metastasized into a social cancer. You rode the coattails of a lucky break and daddy’s financial cushion, mistaking this fortuitous alignment of stars as some kind of testament to your intelligence or value to society. Spoiler alert: it’s not.

Let’s get one thing clear, Mark. You are not a genius. You are not an innovator. You are not some great architect of the digital age. You’re a mediocre coder with the social grace of a damp napkin who got lucky enough to stumble onto a half-decent idea at the right time. Facebook succeeded because of timing, not brilliance. It succeeded because people were eager for connection in an increasingly online world—not because you’re the next coming of Einstein. And now, as the steward of what could have been a tool for empowerment and education, you’ve reduced it to a cesspool of misinformation, hate, and mind-numbing drivel, all in the name of shareholder value.

But today’s move? Today, you reached a new level of pathetic. Dismantling fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram under the guise of “free expression”? Are you fucking serious? Fact-checking on your platforms was already a joke—a performative, too-little-too-late Band-Aid slapped on a gaping wound of misinformation. But at least it was something. Now you’ve decided even that was too much effort because—let’s be honest—you’re scared. Scared of losing ad revenue. Scared of pissing off the MAGA crowd. Scared of Elon Musk, Trump, and the legion of anti-intellectual sycophants who’ve been barking about “censorship” while they spread lies faster than wildfire.

Let’s not forget, you initially had the balls to stand up to Trump. Remember when Facebook banned him after January 6th? You made a big show of pretending to care about democracy and accountability. And yet, here you are, rolling out the red carpet for the same demagogue and his cronies because you’re terrified of losing relevance. You’ve bent the knee just like Musk—a man so desperate for approval he turned Twitter into a farcical echo chamber for his own fragile ego. You’re no better, Mark. You’ve just done it with a slightly more polished veneer of “corporate responsibility.” But don’t think for a second that we don’t see through it.

What’s particularly infuriating is the sheer audacity with which you and your ilk—Musk, Bezos, Thiel, all of you wannabe philosopher-kings of the tech world—pretend your wealth equates to wisdom. As if the money you’ve hoarded and the empires you’ve built by exploiting workers and hijacking public discourse somehow make you qualified to shape society. Newsflash: your billions don’t make you insightful, and your platforms don’t make you indispensable. You’re not architects of the future; you’re caretakers of the prisons you’ve built for yourselves, gilded cages of your own making where your only concern is how to hoard more wealth and power while avoiding accountability.

Let’s talk about accountability, shall we? For years, you’ve enabled the worst aspects of humanity to flourish under the guise of “connecting the world.” Racism, misinformation, political manipulation, mental health crises—you name it, your platforms have amplified it. And every time someone has tried to hold you accountable, you’ve deflected, you’ve gaslit, you’ve hidden behind PR campaigns and hollow promises of reform. Now, you’ve abandoned even the pretense of caring. Stripping away fact-checking is your white flag of surrender to the very forces you once claimed to oppose. It’s a tacit admission that you care only about your bottom line, even if it means letting your platforms rot society from the inside out.

The hypocrisy is staggering. You and Musk and the rest of the tech overlords love to position yourselves as champions of free speech and innovation, but in reality, you’re nothing more than opportunistic cowards. You latch onto whatever ideology is most convenient at the moment—whether it’s pandering to liberals to secure early growth or cozying up to authoritarian populists when the tide turns. It’s not about principles; it’s about survival. You’re chameleons without conviction, mercenaries for profit at the expense of progress.

And let’s not forget the irony of all this. For all your talk of “free expression,” you and your platforms have done more to stifle meaningful discourse than any government ever could. You’ve created echo chambers, monetized outrage, and reduced complex issues to bite-sized headlines designed to enrage rather than inform. Your platforms are not bastions of free speech; they are factories of division, places where truth goes to die and lies are given a megaphone.

So fuck you, Zuckerberg. Fuck you for your cowardice. Fuck you for your greed. Fuck you for pretending to care about the world while doing everything in your power to destroy it. You are not a visionary. You are not a leader. You are a scared little man clinging to relevance in a world that’s increasingly tired of your bullshit. And the sooner your gilded empire crumbles under the weight of its own hypocrisy, the better off we’ll all be.

[13thpythagoras]

TFW people remember facebook existed at Harvard before Zuckerberg was born, neither did he have the idea to put that facebook online, he's just a bigot who stole the idea and ran, and he runs his company like fox news but our parents can't seem to figure out the facebook algo shows them a very "AI"-curated newsfeed programmed to shift the overton window to the right as fast as possible, and they harshly censor leftist speech; part of why I have been urging a boycott of facebook for roughly 12 years and 3 months, join the boycott, send a good bye message to your facebook friends letting them know what you're doing and why and how to reach you, and delete your facebook account today :)

I also urge a boycott of twitter for many (potentially obvious, abovely similar) reasons

Zuckerberging my friends. Day 2:

They have begun acknowledging zuckerberg's presence, but still have not yet called out the fact that I'm doing it.

Perhaps I am too strange an entity already and they expect this behavior of me as a matter of course. Perhaps they secretly find him attractive and haven't yet thought to question my motives as they are too distracted by this.

I cannot say as of yet. I will continue my endeavors.

[asynca]

Wow.

[tomorrowusa]

Being a content moderator on Facebook can give you severe PTSD.

Let's take time from our holiday festivities to commiserate with those who have to moderate social media. They witness some of the absolute worst of humanity.

More than 140 Facebook content moderators have been diagnosed with severe post-traumatic stress disorder caused by exposure to graphic social media content including murders, suicides, child sexual abuse and terrorism. The moderators worked eight- to 10-hour days at a facility in Kenya for a company contracted by the social media firm and were found to have PTSD, generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) and major depressive disorder (MDD), by Dr Ian Kanyanya, the head of mental health services at Kenyatta National hospital in Nairobi. The mass diagnoses have been made as part of lawsuit being brought against Facebook’s parent company, Meta, and Samasource Kenya, an outsourcing company that carried out content moderation for Meta using workers from across Africa. The images and videos including necrophilia, bestiality and self-harm caused some moderators to faint, vomit, scream and run away from their desks, the filings allege.

You can imagine what now gets circulated on Elon Musk's Twitter/X which has ditched most of its moderation.

According to the filings in the Nairobi case, Kanyanya concluded that the primary cause of the mental health conditions among the 144 people was their work as Facebook content moderators as they “encountered extremely graphic content on a daily basis, which included videos of gruesome murders, self-harm, suicides, attempted suicides, sexual violence, explicit sexual content, child physical and sexual abuse, horrific violent actions just to name a few”. Four of the moderators suffered trypophobia, an aversion to or fear of repetitive patterns of small holes or bumps that can cause intense anxiety. For some, the condition developed from seeing holes on decomposing bodies while working on Facebook content.

Being a social media moderator may sound easy, but you will never be able to unsee the horrors which the dregs of society wish to share with others.

To make matters worse, the moderators in Kenya were paid just one-eighth what moderators in the US are paid.

Social media platform owners have vast wealth similar to the GDPs of some countries. They are among the greediest leeches in the history of money.

[vyorei]

Wouldn't it be nice if they actually did something about it?

[leverage-ot3]

okay so I keep general politics off this blog (other than eat the rich, obviously) but I am so tired of hearing this shit from family members on facebook and am heated at the moment so:

this blog stands with palestine 🇵🇸

[nando161mando]

Mark Zuckerberg Used Shell Companies to Intimidate Native Hawaiians, Take Their Land and Build a Apocalyptic Bunker

[reynard61]

[macoto17]

Beware guys, FB/Meta seems to be more actively shadow banning users that support 🍉 and also profiling users while at it.

My FB profile just got locked just moments ago. I was just sharing a GoFund link to an FB group that support 🍉 and suddenly, FB said that I am not allowed to share anything to any FB group anymore...?

Like, I don't even post on FB every day, just about and lurking around.

Then again suddenly after seconds, my profile is locked, and it said that someone is actively trying to hack into my account. I already have the 2-authentication thing set up tho 🙄😮‍💨

Afterwards, it said to retrieve my account, I need to submit a pic of my ID that should at least have the same name as my profile name and at least the same birthday date as on my profile too. Which I did submit the pic, but I guess since my profile name is not my real name and my profile pic on my ID is blurry (thanks to the gov budget camera lol), they further reply through email with this (which really confirms that they really are have been profiling users):

This is actually already my 2nd account, they did a similar thing to my 1st account, which was making users confirm their real names. If you failed to do so, the profile name will be change to your real name and can't ever again be changed. (This may be old school, but it's not actually safe to reveal and use your real name online.)

I guess from that point on, where they make users confirmed their real names, they were already starting profiling users.

I guess with this, I no longer want to make another account coz this is already too inconvenient since it's already my second account.

Oh yeah, don't forget to keep boycotting/cancelling and keep doing the blockout on all platforms guys 🤗 Please don't also forget to keep signing those petitions 💖🍉 TQSM 🙇🏻‍♀️💖

[sliimehag]

I shared this post on my Facebook, and it was immediately taken down for "violating cybersecurity standards"?

Lmfao alright, I should have known it was run by Zionists

[jewishbarbies]

the way that people on social media now expect you to take everything someone says online as fact and that's how you should get your information is so fucking infuriating. i'm not trusting some random twt or tumblr user (or, god forbid, reddit) to give me accurate information on ANYTHING when we literally know how many fucking bots and disinformation campaigns exist on our internet. genz prides itself on being "the most politically aware" and act like they're going to start a fucking revolution from their iphones with hashtags, and then turn around and believe what someone says on a fucking tiktok with absolutely no sources or fact verification at all. yeah, y'all are real aware - of bullshit. do fucking better.

[saturngalore]

too many people are complaining that the strike on the 11th is “too short noticed” or “organized” when an actual palestinian in gaza started the call for it and there can and will be more strikes after this…just be prepared for and aware of continuous and numerous future acts of disruption (both small and huge) until palestine is free hello